UCLA Extension Horticulture & Gardening Program

Discover the amazing study of Horticultural Therapy! Starts this April.

Foundations of Horticultural Therapy | UCLA Extension A foundational course in the practice and methodology of horticultural therapy.

Foundations of Horticultural Therapy | UCLA Extension A foundational course in the practice and methodology of horticultural therapy.

The feral rose lives! The rains have given her many blooms!!

Two days of hard labor. Planting in gopher baskets but it's done! This class rocks! Calvet was very so stoked!!

Our building a garden ecology class dug out the rain garden and lasagna mulched today. Plants tomorrow!!

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A fabulous opportunity!

This Wednesday is the deadline to submit applications for our Sustainable Plant Health Care Summer Internship opening! The successful candidate will work with our horticulture team all summer to learn, implement, and monitor sustainable management practices across our 37-acre botanic garden. One of the best parts? This internship is paid and includes complimentary on-site housing during the program! If you or someone you know would like to learn more, visit our website here: https://loom.ly/7Yu0-H0

RP • On November 9th, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). If this 45-year-old law were to be dismantled, it would have devastating consequences on Native families and Tribal sovereignty. Native children belong in Native families, however those families may manifest, and their livelihoods should never lie in the hands of a SCOTUS whose majority has proven to be one that seeks to entrench the very colonial practices that perpetuated the destruction of Native cultural, tribal, historical, linguistic and ancestral connections. Furthermore, the predominantly White people who continue to either fetishize Native children or seek to corrupt them in a Judeo-Christian manner must ask themselves why, in this day and age, they feel entitled to the bodies and souls of Native children. If you and your white led organization are still reciting land acknowledgments, please know that it is largely performative. The true work is in ensuring that you return stolen land, artifacts and all that was taken from Native people, and pay restitution where required; and in the case of the Indian Child Welfare Act, work to convince white people to leave Native children in their tribes.

RP• Happening tomorrow! ➡️ For information and to register, visit the link in bio 🔗

Did you know that LA’s stadium is classified as a botanical garden? Next time you’re enjoying a game make sure to stroll the grounds to see how and his staff design and maintain a landscape which beautifully compliments the legacy of the stadium, the land and creates a beautiful atmosphere for stadium goers. Have you taken the botanical garden tour yet?

There is always time to learn and grow 🌱 Did you know our course Plant Materials for Landscape Use is a plant 🔎 identification course with lots of local field trips? 🔗Visit the to sign up!

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie ✨

A big thank you to all of the Horticulture Program Advisory Board members who joined us at the quarterly meeting yesterday! We appreciate you 💚

🌞 🌺 Have a beautiful weekend🪴🌎💚

Some good news!

36 countries now have more trees than they did in the year 2000 While the entire world lost enormous amounts of forests in the last 20 years, some countries—including India and China—bucked the trend.

Arbutus unedo - an evergreen shrub or small tree in the flowering plant family Ericaceae native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe. The tree is well known for its fruit, which bear some resemblance to the strawberry—hence the common name "strawberry tree".

*Free* upcoming class! Providing habitat for pollinators is key to a heathy and thriving ecosystem and garden. Learn how to create a successful design with pollinators in mind in our course Designing for Pollinators. In this class we'll cover:

🐝 The different bee species within the northwest and California

🐝 The basics of honeybee hives, care, and threats to these pollinators

🐝Choosing plants that attract native butterflies and native bees

🐝Identifying other pollinators besides bees

Instructor Stephanie Virginia Frances Landregan MSPM, PLA, FASLA, LEED BD and C
is program director of the Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Gardening program at UCLA Extension. She is also a a member of the California State Mining and Geology Board, a licensed landscape architect, and certified beekeeper in California.

Click below to sign up! Recording available to registrants only.

Designing for Pollinators | UCLA Continuing Education Online Providing habitat for pollinators is key to a heathy and thriving ecosystem and garden. Learn how to create a successful design with pollinators in mind.

Come work with us in UCLA Extension's Horticulture and Gardening Program! We're currently hiring two additional instructors for our Pest Management and Soil Science courses. Visit the link in our bio for additional information and links to apply for both positions.

You need more than a compass to find your way in horticulture - you need great alliances! Join us in this free UCLA x Open course with horticulture specialist and business development manager Katharine Rudnyk.

"My experience while working at wonderful garden centers, a wholesale nursery, landscape architecture firm, botanical garden foundation board, garden reality television shows, and now a landscape construction, design and maintenance company might help you build a great bridge to a fabulous network! History has shown there is a place for you in horticulture."

Sign up at https://www.uclaextension.edu/landscape-architecture-horticulture/landscape-architecture/course/growing-horticultural-alliances

Rebecca Ryvola-Marez took this beautiful photo of a Lupine and says “it could have a recessive allele for white flowering occurring within a population of majority purple flowering individuals.” We’d love to hear your thoughts on this theory in the comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“I've so enjoyed Leslie’s class this quarter--I find the asynchronous format very pleasant to work with, as I can pause the videos and take as many notes as I like.”
It isn’t too late to jump into our summer course with horticulturist Leslie Finical Halleck - Indoor Plants: Care & Maintenance. The remote class format makes it easy to attend classes around your schedule and office hours give you an opportunity to have discussions with your instructor and classmates in real time. Learn how to identify your unique indoor environment, choose appropriate and healthy plants, and create a maintenance schedule for plant success! The course opens this week, so sign up today!

Watch this reel by uclaxhorticulture on Instagram Adam Griffith • Cherry Hill

Are you ready - new water restrictions for Los Angeles go into effect today! If you want to learn more about creating sustainable, drought tolerant landscapes our instructors are at the forefront of this critical work and have the tools to support you.

Learn to Grow, Grow to Learn 💚 Our online summer course Indoor Plants: Care and Maintenance with horticulturist Leslie Halleck is open for enrollment! Leslie is a wealth of knowledge and offers “office hours” where you can get answers to all of your plant questions and nerd out with other plant obsessed folks from all over the globe! Learn how to identify your unique indoor environment, how to choose appropriate and healthy plants, and how to create a maintenance schedule for plant success! Classes go from June 21 – August 30. Click the link in bio to sign up! 📷: @lesliehalleck #learn #learntogrow #growtolearn #plants #plantsofinstagram #plantparenting #indoorplants #plantcare #plantsmakepeoplehappy #plantsofinstagram #horticulturist #horticultureinstructor #uclaxhorticulture #uclaextension #ucla #losangeles

Scholarship alert 🚨The application cycle for the J Michael Baer Horticulture Scholarship opens TODAY! The link to the application and eligibility requirements are below. The deadline is June 10th at 5pm 🌿🌳🌵

https://www.uclaextension.edu/financial-aid-scholarships-discounts/scholarships